Between ‘Volk and Forsa’ – Situational popularity and its consequences for representative de-mocracy (C07*)

• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The project examines on the basis of two datasets – a comparative dataset that contains ap-proval ratings for political parties in 16 European countries since around 1970, and a dataset that documents topic-specific surveys, their thematic orientation, their clients and their media resonance for Germany since around 2010 – central theses of the CRC on the consequences of ‘attention’ and its measurement for political action and the functioning of representative democracy.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Philip Manow